In Tomatoes, Miriam Rubin gives this staple of Southern gardens the passionate portrait it deserves, exploring the tomato's rich history in Southern culture and inspiring home cooks to fully enjoy these summer fruits in all their glorious variety. Rubin, a nationally known food writer and tomato connoisseur, provides fifty vibrant recipes as well as wisdom about how to choose tomatoes and which tomato is right for which dish.

Tomatoes includes recipes that celebrate the down-home, inventive, and contemporary, such as Stand-over-the-Sink Tomato Sandwiches, Spiced Green Tomato Crumb Cake, Green Tomato and Pork Tenderloin Biscuit Pie, and Tomato and Golden Raisin Chutney. Rubin also offers useful cooking tips, lively lessons on history, cultivation, and preserving, and variations for year-round enjoyment of the tomato.